IP: Any IP'ers in Japan willing to comment on this?: Japan rations new year mobile use

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 15:09:04 -0800
> From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari@OLTECO.com>
> Subject: Japan rations new year mobile use
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> To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>
>         Any IP'ers in Japan willing to comment on this?
>
> Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1735000/1735365.stm
> Monday, 31 December, 2001, 06:20 GMT
> Japan rations new year mobile use
> 'Happy New Year' calls will be restricted Japanese mobile phone
> companies are limiting access to their services over the new year.
>
> The firms fear that a surge in calls and text messages to pass on
> new year greetings will paralyse their networks.
>
> Japan's leading mobile phone operators - NTTDoCoMo, Japan Telecom
> and KDDI - posted messages on their websites informing users of
> the limits.
>
> "We plan to temporarily restrict access," NTT's message read, "we would 
> appreciate it if our subscribers were to avoid calling during the hours."
>
> Going down
>
> NTTDoCoMo said that customers will only be able to connect once for
> every several tries for about two hours into the new year.
>
> The telecoms firm - which has more than eight million subscribers -
> will reduce capacity by 87%, according to Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun 
> newspaper.
>
> Its rival, KDDI, reportedly plans to allow only one of every five
> attempts to call, text or e-mail.
>
> The cut in services will last for about two hours.
>
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